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Assessing the Coherence of Parents' Short Narratives Regarding their Child Using the Five-Minute Speech Sample Procedure
Published on: September 19, 2019
[The relationship between students' well-being and their parents' knowledge and support in a metropolitan area]
Naoko Nakayama1, Michiko Tamura, Toshihiko Takahashi
1Tokyo Metropolitan University, Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Department of Urban System Science.
Objectives:
The purpose of this study was to clarify the causal relationship between students' well-being and their parents' knowledge and support in raising them in a prefecture by using covariance structural analysis.
Methods:
In November 2007, a questionnaire survey was conducted with 11,363 elementary school students (4th grade),junior high school students (1st grade) and high school students (1st grade) as well as their parents. The total number of responses analyzed were 9,651 pairs of matched data for parents and their children.
Results:
A concept model was proposed to use four latent variables determined by factor analysis. "Students' well-being" (" " means latent variable) classified as a latent variable, was not prescribed directly by "parents' knowledge and support", but rather developed indirectly through "physical activities" and "communication between the students and parents". The decision coefficients for the students' well-being determined with this model ranged from 27% to 40%. Depending on the participant's age and gender, they were divided into six groups.
Conclusion:
This study indicated that positive support for children's health and well-being by the parents was important for students to have a happy and healthy lifestyle. It became structurally clear that it was necessary for both students and their parents to engage in physical activities and have good communication with each other in order to stimulate and develop children's health practice and well-being.
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